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ALERT.....WINDOWS 10

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Critical Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows Operating Systems.
The NSA...(National Cyber Awareness System) has discovered a critical vulnerability in Windows 10 and reported it to Microsoft
Microsoft has included a patch to fix it in the January cumulative update released yesterday 1/14/2020. You may want to apply this update sooner rather than later.
On January 14, 2020, Microsoft released software fixes to address 49 vulnerabilities as part of their monthly Patch Tuesday announcement. Among the vulnerabilities patched were critical weaknesses in Windows CryptoAPI, Windows Remote Desktop Gateway (RD Gateway), and Windows Remote Desktop Client. An attacker could remotely exploit these vulnerabilities to decrypt, modify, or inject data on user connections:....(https://www.us-cert.gov/ncas/alerts/aa20-014a)

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